The best horror games for Halloween 2026
Horror games to play around Halloween, picked from the 494 horror games on PC in our catalog: the best ones to play with friends, this year's new releases, free games and demos. Every game links to its requirements, price and Steam Deck status.
Steam Scream V, the Steam Halloween sale, runs until Nov 2, 2026: 1,995 horror games are on sale right now.
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Demo The 18th Attic - Paranormal Anomaly Hunting Game
Psychological horror built around spotting changes in a looping attic
78% positive
100 reviews
Paratopic: Overdub
First-person horror pieced together from strange encounters on American roads
77% positive
100 reviews
The Island of Doctor Morose
Point-and-click survival horror with slingshot combat and a rescue deadline
95% positive
100 reviews
Silent Wounds - The Doll
First-person psychological horror about a student's growing obsession with a doll
91% positive
Free
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Submerge
First-person co-op horror with puzzles behind doors to different realities
63% positive
99 reviews
Project Threshold
First-person horror walking simulator built around remembering deadly door choices
71% positive
99 reviews
Demo Life & Shadow: Celestial Call
Cosmic horror that pairs observatory upkeep with nighttime exploration
98% positive
98 reviews
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Cyan Heart
A horror puzzle adventure seen through a girl’s selfie camera
96% positive
98 reviews
FEED IT
First-person horror about escaping a maze controlled by a hungry monster
84% positive
98 reviews
怪異番号~20✕✕(ニーマルバツバツ)~
A text-based horror adventure centered on a mysterious phone number
96% positive
97 reviews
Building 0: Hakuei University
Exploration-based horror with a camera and a haunted university campus
80% positive
97 reviews
ABOVE
Daylight psychological horror where noise draws danger from the sky
69% positive
Free
The Last Letter
Psychological horror walking simulator following anonymous letters into a forest
88% positive
97 reviews
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Abandoned Stories: Inherited Silence
Psychological horror inside a house, with endings shaped by choices
96% positive
96 reviews
The Lure
A horror walking simulator about escaping a living, shifting trap
84% positive
Free
Mycelium: The Silent Contract
Extraction horror about gathering fungi in an ever-changing forest
99% positive
95 reviews
Log.in
A mystery horror adventure told through a kidnapper's computer
76% positive
95 reviews
Demo Buenos Aires Mirror Line
Psychological horror about spotting anomalies on a looping bus ride
96% positive
94 reviews
Camp Whittlewood
A horror adventure about a woodcarver legend at scout camp
97% positive
94 reviews
Demo Hazard Levels
Co-op survival horror with physics-based looting across unstable dimensions
75% positive
91 reviews
Demo HYPNOS
First-person exploration adventure through a dreamlike city of megastructures
97% positive
91 reviews
HOUSE CALL
First-person point-and-click horror about answering a desperate call for help
89% positive
Free
Demo House of Empty Names
First-person horror about escaping a house while a kidnapper hunts
88% positive
90 reviews
The Mailroom
A first-person horror simulation about sorting mail in hell
97% positive
90 reviews